The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-05-14
News of the week.

destroyed about twelve buildings, mostly &C.
cupied as stores
The President OH Wednesday appointed
James W. Hyatt, of Connecticut, to be Treas
urer of the United States, vice Jordan, re-
signed.
Rev. Dr. E. F. W. Walther, President of
the Theological Seminary of the German
Evangelical Synod at St. Louis, died in that
city on Saturday, aged 76 years.
A fierce prairie fire was reported on Mon
| day fifteen miles from Grand Forks, Dakota.
A large warehouse of the Minneapolis and
Northern Elevator Company had been burned.
1t is reported that an aggravated epizooty
has broken out among the horses in Warren
county, N. J., and number of animals have
died. The disease was introduced by Western
horses.
While men were at work on the new rail-
road, near Shenandoah, Pa, on Saturday, a
tree which another workman was cutting
down fell among them, killing one man and
fatally injuring another
A telegram from Portland, Oregon, says
the total number known to have persisted in
the mining disaster at Mainline is 189. of
whom 81 were Chinese and 107 whites. More
than half the white men leave families.
The Comptroller of the Currency on Mon
Gay authorized the Western NaLlOnal BANK
of the city of New York to begin business,
with capital of So, 100000. This the bank
of which ex-Secretary Manning is President.
A fire in Lebanon, New Hampshire, early
Tuesday morning, destroyed about 80 build
ings. The total loss is estimated at $780,
600, the insurance at $4,000. Six hundred
men are thrown out of work and sixty fami-
lies made homeless.
Reports received at the Treasury Depart
ment show that $500, 426 trade dollars have
been redeemed to date. The principal redemp-
ton was in Philadelphia. The law authorize
ing the redemption of trade dollars has nearly
four months more to run.
The Debt Commission, consisting of Vir-
GINA representatives and representatives of
the British holders, which has been sitting in
Richmond, adjourned finally on Monday after
noon without any settlement having been
reached. Negotiations were reopened on
Tuesday.
A heavy thunder storm passed over Pitts
burg and Allegheny City at five o'clock on
Saturday evening. In Allegheny City four
dwellings and church were struck by light
ming, and on the Steubenville pike dwelling
was wrecked and a woman paralyzed by the
electric fluid.
Franklin Howell, a banker of Scranton,
lady for breach Of promise, she claiming
$4,000. About year ago, a Scranton lady
brought similar suit against him laying her
damages at $4,000. There are doubts as TO
the sanity of Howell.
A thunder storm at Akron, Ohio, on Sun
day night, caused damage estimated at $780,
600 within forty minutes. The business part
of the town was flooded, six houses were
struck by lightning, four houses were wrecked,
and a barn and four horses were consumed.
Four men were severely injured by the cleo
trict fluid.
Peter Tripp and Alexander Caldwell,
farmers, near Catlettsburg, Kentucky, quar-
relied last week about fence, and threatened
s'to kill each other on sight" They met on
the road on Monday evening, and opened fire
on each other. Trip was killed and Cald-
well so badly wounded that he died on Tues
day morning.
While four men were cleaning out an old
well at St. Sauveur, Quebec on Wednesday
afternoon, two of them fell in. The others,
trying to rescue their companions, also fell
into the well. Joseph Gaspard, Joseph Bus
sier and Francis Bussier persisted of suffoca
ton and drowning. The fourth man was saved
in an unconscious condition.
At Stafford Court House, Virginia, during
terrible thunder storm last Saturday. man
named Wright, visiting at Andrew Pearson's
house, opened the door and was killed by
bolt of lightning, which passed through the
house and also killed three children, who
were playing on the floor. Mrs. Pearson and
several others were stunned.
According to telegram from Shenandoah,
Pa, the coal strike appears to be imminent.
The miners say that, if the demand of the
men for an increase of 10 per cent. is refused,
Al. tal-a ,,lo tha 18th
inst, when every coliery from Carbonate to
Williamstown will stop, and 10000 men will
quit work until the advance is granted.
By the earthquake of the afternoon of the
Sd inst $50 persons were killed at Batrispe, IN
the Mexican State of Sonora. At Oputu %
persons we're killed. At the time of the shock
a volcanic eruption began in the mountains
near Batrispe. Seismic activity is reported
throughout Mexico, with volcanic outbreaks
near the Guatemalan border, as well as in
Sonora.
Dangerous forest fires are reported in Alger
and Marquette counties. in the Michigan pen
insula Much damage has been done along
the South Shore Railroad in the Menominee
lumber district. Extensive forest fires are
also reported in various portions of Massa-
chusetts. A fire which started on Wednesday,
near Collins Crossing, on Cape Cod, had, at
acres and traversed distance of fifteen miles.
All the thirteen counties of the upper PEN
insula of Michigan were devastated by the
wind storm of last week. The wind was a
straight blast of from two to ten hours dura-
ton. Houses were unroofed or demolished,
unfinished buildings scattered, and chimneys
and out. houses destroyed. Only three fatali
ties are reported, but many were severely in
jured. 1t is estimated that the damage for
the upper peninsula will reach 100000, in
Gliding the pine stumpage destroyed.
The Garfield Monument, in Washington,
erected by the Society of the Army of the
Cumberland, was dedicated on Thursday.
The programme included military and civic
procession; prayer by Rev. DIR. Giesy; the
unwilling of the statue; firing of salute; an
Grafton by Gen. Keller; the transfer of the
statue by Gen. Sheridan and its acceptance
by President Cleveland in an appropriate ad
dress, and benediction by Rev. E. P. Power,
who was Garfield's pastor in Washington.
A woman employed as aiweaver in a mill
at Lowell deposited $40 in the Lowell Insti-
tute for, Savings in 1892. At various times
between that year and 1852 she added to the
deposit until it amounted to $153. In 1875
the principal, with dividends earned, amount
ed to S1406. She has since drawn out 500,
ana the WnOle amount 10 ner creult IN 1904
was 1907. She has since allowed $1,000 to
remain on interest, and her income is $40
year. She is now about eighty years old.
Slight earthquake shocks continue at inter-
walls in New Mexico, Arizona and Sonora.
A fssnre opened in Arizona which extended
from near Benson to fifteen miles below Tres
Alamos, distance altogether Of twenty-five
miles. Another tissue is reported seventy
miles from Tucson, which it opened, threw
mud and water to a great height. The be-
| lief that q volcano had broken out in Sonora
was caused by the friction from rocks falling
down the mountain sides, which ignited the
woods. s5s ltattsas SOS
Furnace E, at the Edgar Thompson Steel
Works, at Braddocks, Pa. was blown out a
| few days ago, and gang Of men was put at
work to clean it out. An arch had formed of
coke, limestone and other materials, which
was still at a red heat, and on Tuesday night
it suddenly gave way. Five men were taken
out from under the red hot matter. Three of
them died on Wednesday morning, and the
other two are not expected to recover.
Several other men were seriously injured by
the flying pieces
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